Jacques Gohory

Jacques Gohory (1520 – 15 March 1576) was a French aristocrat, writer, translator and occult philosopher.

Gohory was the first child of Pierre, an advocate with the Parlement of Paris, and wife Catherine de Rivière.

He established an experimental laboratory in 1572 called the Lycium philosophal Sanmarcellin at his home at grand rue Faubourg Sant-Marceau-les-Paris.

He wrote a book on the tobacco plant, Instruction sur l'herbe Petum (1572), dedicated to physician Ian Francisque Caraffe, Duke of Arrian, a relative of Pope Paul IV.

He translated Machiavelli's The Prince (1571) and produced De Vita longa, a commentary on Paracelsus.